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Budget airline easyJet has withdrawn almost 300,000 copies of its in-flight magazine because of protests over its use of Holocaust memorial sites as a backdrop for a fashion feature, the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper reported Tuesday.

“An eight-page spread in the November edition of the magazine, easyJet Traveller, depicted models posing at the Jewish Museum in Berlin and leaning against the pillars of the Holocaust memorial,” the Guardian said. “The magazine has been removed from all flights after complaints from Jewish organisations in Europe and from passengers, particularly on flights to Tel Aviv, one of the airline’s destinations.”

The advertising agency that produced the feature got written permission to photograph models outside the museum but not at the memorial, the story said.

EasyJet spokeswoman Samantha Day told the Guardian the matter was brought to the airline’s attention on Friday, three weeks after the issue went into circulation.

“We realized that to hold a fashion shoot in front of the memorial was inappropriate and insensitive, and we didn’t wish to offend anyone,” Day told the Guardian. “It’s not quite clear why we didn’t spot it earlier.”

INK, the external publishing house responsible for the magazine, said in a written statement that the article was meant to raise awareness.

“From an educational perspective, it is of utmost importance that visitors to Berlin see the Jewish Museum … and Holocaust memorial,” it said, according to the Guardian.

EasyJet said it was reviewing its deal with INK.

One person responding to the issue on the German news website thelocal.de wrote: “What next? A tourism photo shoot in Auschwitz?”

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